{"id":835011,"date":"2026-09-03T09:20:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T09:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/835011\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T09:20:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T09:20:13","slug":"rb-jonathon-brooks-out-of-practice-with-soreness-but-panthers-unconcerned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/835011\/","title":{"rendered":"RB Jonathon Brooks out of practice with soreness, but Panthers unconcerned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Panthers running back Jonathon Brooks remained out of practice on Wednesday, but head coach Dave Canales is unconcerned that Brooks\u2019 injury will keep him out of the season opener.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m very optimistic <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/story\/_\/id\/49805489\/panthers-rb-jonathon-brooks-coach-optimistic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">he\u2019ll be available<\/a> for Week 1,\u201d Canales said Wednesday, via ESPN\u2019s Mike Kaye.<\/p>\n<p>Brooks is dealing with \u201csoreness\u201d Canales revealed Tuesday, but Canales would not specify the location of Brooks\u2019 discomfort.<\/p>\n<p>Brooks has undergone back-to-back ACL surgeries on his right knee, but he participated in all of training camp and two preseason games this summer. He played 17 snaps in the preseason.<\/p>\n<p>He tore his right ACL against the Eagles in December 2024, a season after tearing it while playing for the University of Texas. Brooks missed all of the 2025 season.<\/p>\n<p>In the three games he played as a rookie in 2024, Brooks had 12 touches for 45 yards.<\/p>\n<p>Brooks is expected to complement Chuba Hubbard, with journeyman AJ Dillon also on the active roster. Trevor Etienne is on injured reserve with a designation to return as he works his way back from an ankle injury.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Panthers running back Jonathon Brooks remained out of practice on Wednesday, but head coach Dave Canales is unconcerned&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":835012,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-835011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=835011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835011\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/835012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=835011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=835011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=835011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}